"Telepathic Chronicles 154 (PGH)": Slavek Kwi, in Ireland, has now initiated 154 experiments in telepathy for musicians as of September 22, 2025.  As I understand it, the idea is for musicians in any location to play at the same time in an attempt to psychically tune into each other.  All participants send a recording to Slavek & then he mixes those together, searching for coincidences.  Kwi is an excellent electro-acoustic composer & performer who works under the name of Artificial Memory Trace.  

For my participation on this occasion I recruited 2 long-term Pittsburgh collaborators: Kenny Haney (guitar) & Ben Opie (alto sax).  How does one try to tune in telepathically to unknown persons in unknown locales?  I did something that's typical of me: I set up my playing situation in a new way for me, making it so that it would be less natural for me to fall back on habits.  I used a triple-necked guitar that I'd never played very much & basically hadn't played for 3 years.  I tuned it in a way I'd never played before.  This guitar is very heavy & it's difficult for my decaying 72 year old body to support its weight.  Once the parameters were set, I navigated intuitively through the possibilities that they created.  It's the intuition that I relate most closely to telepathy.  I don't know what Kenny & Ben were doing, telepathy-wise, but I did notice Kenny's playing more or less completely differently than I'd ever heard him play before.  

- September 23, 2025E.V. notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE 

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